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A Compendium of Works to Increase the Probability of Project Success

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Project Governance. Agile Software Development for Government Software Intensive System of Systems (SISoS) , Boulder Agile Meetup, 27 July 2016. How to Develop Credible Cost & Schedule Estimate. Estimating and Reporting Physical Percent Complete on Agile Projects , DHS Cost Analysis Stakeholder Working Group, June 26, 2017.

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The Classic Misunderstanding between Principles, Practices, and Process

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Let's start with a history paper , “ Iterative and Incremental Development: A Brief History ,” Craig Larman and Victor Basili, IEEE Computer, June 2003. Those that objected to the early XP approaches were right to criticize the lack of governance and actionable outcomes. The criticism of #NoEstimates is simple.

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Misunderstanding Making Decisions in the Presence of Uncertainty

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What happens if you shift focus from "accurate estimation" to "reliably shipping by a date"? . If your project has no uncertainty, there is no need to estimate. All estimates have precision and accuracy. Deciding how much precision and accuracy is needed for a credible estimate is critical to the success of that decision.

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Managing Projects in Education: Specific Challenges and Ways of Addressing Them

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It involves setting clear goals, defining roles, estimating time and costs required for project implementation, planning resources. The challenges listed below are among the most common project management challenges, at the same time, they are driven by specificity of the educational sphere. . Improper planning. Budget constraints .

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Incremental Commitment Spiral Model

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Iterative and Incremental Development: A Brief History," Craig Larman and Victor Basili, IEEE Computer , June 2003. Why Guessing is not Estimating and Estimating is not Guessing. Managing the Development of Large-Scale Software: Concepts and Techniques," Winston Royce, Proceedings, Wescon, August 1970. IT Risk Management.

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Start with Principles, Not Personal Anecdotes

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I've seen estimates abused by bad managers, so let's NOT estimate and that will fix the behavior of Bad Managers." While the human behaviors are real and observable, conjecturing that decisions can be made in the presence of uncertainty without estimating the outcome of those decisions, there is no principle to support that conjecture.

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Risk Management Resources

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requires making estimates) ? Effective Risk Management 2 nd Edition , Edmund Conrow, AIAA, 2003. 105, 2003. “A Estimation of Long?Term Risk Analysis & Estimating Uncertainty … and what this has to do with the price of milk in McLean,” Phil Beenhouwer, The Society of Cost Estimating & Analysis (SCEA), May 17, 2006.